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Alia Mens, Olivier Spilmont – Anti-Melancholicus (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:09 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Anti-Melancholicus is the title of a book by August Pfeiffer that Bach jotted down, to remember it, on the title page of Notebook for Anna Magdalena. For Luther, melancholy was food for the devil. The echo of this thought in the construction itself of these three Cantatas is enlightening.
As perceived by Bach, music was not the vector of aesthetic pleasure, but a spiritual delectation. It springs more from a conception of music whose oldest sources are to be discovered in the cultural and magical usage of music (its capacity to transform), as imagined by the Pythagoreans who gave it the function of leading the soul and inculcating it with an ethos, a way of being.
May this Anti-Melancholicus, to borrow an image from Edgar Morin, be like an island upon which to seek fresh provisions in this ocean of uncertainty.
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Ensemble Alia Mens & Olivier Spilmont – J. S. Bach: Weimar Cantatas (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:02 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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The group of Weimar cantatas is exciting on many levels. The purpose Bach expressed in his Mühlhausen resignation letter – which became a master beam of the musical edice he built throughout his life – is expressed with an even more seminal vigour, due to the restrictions it suffered previously. Besides the beauty of the surviving works, which renders the loss of the missing ones all the more bitter, it is moving to see the musician engage, with each new piece, in experiments with form, ideas, and the language for expressing the word of God through the most sensitive possible texts. The choice of developing themes dear to him enabled him to afirm and deepen his faith.
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